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> Bugs can be anywhere.

Yes. Bugs. Bugs can be fixed.

By-design (mis)features can't be fixed. The only way to fix them is by removing the feature.

Unless you're agreeing that JS-in-PDFs is a bug, you're conflating fundamentally different issues.



JS in PDF might be a mis-feature, but any security lapse is indeed a bug in the implementation (made doubly worse by firefox running the JS in a web context).

Yes, removing JS support would get rid of potential security exploits. It doesn't change the fact that said exploits rely on bugs in the implementation.




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